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Published 5:29 pm, Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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Officials of H & M, Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M), one of the world's largest fashion retailers known for offering fashion-forward apparel, announced its first location in San Antonio at The Shops at La Cantera with a 27,000-square-foot space opening in spring of 2014. Texas will be a focus for H&M's U.S. expansion throughout 2014.

Applications are now being accepted by the
Kerrville Branch of AAUW (American Association of University Women) for its annual Graduate Studies Scholarship awarded to women who have been accepted into or are presently enrolled at the graduate level in an accredited college or university. According to AAUW chair Linda Christian, the scholarship is open to residents in Kerr, Bandera, Gillespie, Kendall, or Kimble counties. Deadline for the applications is Feb. 15.

The scholarship's aim is to assist local women to obtain advanced education and give back to their communities. Although many applicants are career women in the field of education, AAUW encourages competitive applications from women in many fields, including social services, health care, natural science, business and law.

Applications are available at the branch website www.aauwkerrville.org or by contacting Linda Christian at 830-928-9363 or lgcdoover@hotmail.com.

TMI teacher Karla Ortiz, who teaches English as a Second Language at TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas, has been accepted into the Honor Society at Lamar University, where she is earning a master's degree in educational leadership. Membership in the society is based on GPA and a nomination, recognizing student success and encouraging further achievement. Lamar University is a public research university located in Beaumont.

CPS Energy customers are seeing a new look to their monthly bills. Standard, letter-size paper will be used for the bills, which will now be solid black and white. Urgent messages, like those for past due accounts, will be in red to call attention to their importance. Revising the bill cuts the cost of colored ink and printing, utility officials say. Now, a standard printing process will be used instead of the custom system required previously. Use of standard-size envelopes also will save money.

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The utility's free Manage My Account online service for accessing account information, is available anytime and stores 12 months of bills and facilitates basic service requests like starting, stopping, or transferring service, making payment arrangements, or updating CPS Energy Alert options to be notified of outages. More than 310,000 CPS Energy customers are enrolled.

To set up an account, go to https://secure.cpsenergy.com/selfservice/existingCust.jsp.

Army National Guard Pvt. Jared M. Hernandezhas graduated from the Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. The training consists of Basic Infantry Training and Advanced Individual Training.

During the nine weeks of basic combat training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons employment, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid skills, and Army history, core values and traditions.

The Advanced Individual Training course is designed to train infantry soldiers to perform reconnaissance operations, employ, fire and recover anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, locate and neutralize land mines and operate target and sight equipment, perform infantry combat exercises and dismounted battle drills, which includes survival procedures in a nuclear, biological or chemical contamination area.

Hernandez is the son of Yvonne and Mark Hernandez of San Antonio and is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis High School,

A new Goodwill donation station has been set up in Northwest San Antonio at 8803 State Highway 151, near the intersection of State 151 and Potranco Road.

The location is staffed by attendants to help donors unload contributions of household items and is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday.

Items currently in high demand include home decor, house wares, books, furniture, toys, small appliances and computers.

All donors receive a receipt for tax purposes. For more information, visit www.goodwillsa.org or call 210-924-8581.